Eric M. Glover

Eric M. Glover is an Associate Professor Adjunct at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University, where he practices dramaturgy and dramatic criticism. Glover is the author of African American Perspectives in Musical Theater (London: Methuen Drama, 2024), where he reads notable works by and about Black people—from Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins to Stew—closely. Glover is a coeditor of “Manifestos for Black Theater, Then and Now” (2025) in Theater History Studies, where he cointroduces the special section’s topic. Essays in book collections, journal articles, reviews, and other pieces either appear or are forthcoming in Annual Magazine, Fifty Key Figures in Queer US Theater, the Journal of American Drama and Theater, Milestones in Musical Theater, Modern Drama, programs, the Sondheim Review, Studies in Musical Theater, TDR, Theater, Theater Journal, Troubling Traditions, WILL POWER! and elsewhere. Glover has served as a production dramaturg for Jordan E. Cooper’s Ain’t No Mo’ (DGSD, University Theatre, New Haven, 2024), Yale Cabaret, Yale Repertory Theatre, and Yale’s Binger Center for New Theatre. Glover has been awarded the inaugural DGSD Distinguished Teaching Prize for Assistant and Associate Professors Adjunct that recognizes excellence in mentoring at his rank. As a past recipient of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, it is important to Glover that the life of the mind be accessible to marginalized groups. 2021 George Award for Excellence Winner; 2022 Ucross Raymond Plank Drama Residency; 2023 Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Inductee; 2023-Present Yale RITM Faculty Fellows Program. Glover was also appointed a Member-at-Large of the International Society for the Study of Musicals, and he was also elected the Secretary of the American Society for Theater Research by the members. Glover is proud to be the first Black member of the full-time faculty of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at DGSD ever in its history.